Editing David Douglas (botanist) (section)

==Legacy==
Although the common name "Douglas fir" refers to him, the tree's scientific name, ''[[Pseudotsuga]] menziesii'', honours a rival botanist, [[Archibald Menzies]]. Several Hawaiian plants were named after him in earlier taxonomies, such as ''[[Pandanus tectorius]]'' known in Hawaiian as ''hala'', sometimes given the name ''Pandanus douglasii''.<ref name="greenwell"/> A species of "horned toad", ''[[Phrynosoma douglasii]]'', is named in honor of David Douglas.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Douglas, D.", p. 75).</ref> Over eighty species of plants and animals have ''douglasii'' in their scientific names, in his honour.  He introduced several hundred plants to Great Britain and hence to Europe.{{sfn |Nisbet |2009 |p=252}} There is a memorial to David Douglas in his birthplace of Scone. [[David Douglas High School]] and the [[David Douglas School District]] in [[Portland, Oregon]] are named after him. Remnants of a greenhouse built by David Douglas can be seen in [[Wood Street Village]], [[Surrey]].

In [[Vancouver, Washington|Vancouver]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], he is remembered via David Douglas Park which was used during [[World War II]] as interim housing for the [[Kaiser Shipyard]] workers living in little silver trailers, giving the area the brief nickname during the era of "Trailer Terrace Park."<ref>Jolotta, Pat. Naming Clark County. Vancouver: Fort Vancouver Historical Society, 1993. Print.  p.15.</ref>

The David Douglas Chapter of [[Daughters of the American Revolution]] was founded in [[Redmond, Washington]] in 1981.

The actor [[Alvy Moore]] was cast as Douglas in the 1962 episode "The Grass Man" of the television series ''[[Death Valley Days]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556626/|title=The Grass Man in Death Valley Days|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=13 November 1962|access-date=17 July 2019}}</ref>